The Americanization of Manila 1898-1921

This book makes use of the historical descriptive method to describe the origins and evolution of the Americanization process in Manila in the first two decades of American rule. It seeks to describe the transformation of the city in the light of the American colonial objectives. It focuses on the sociopolitical dynamics of administrative policy on three important components of America social modernization program: city planning and infrastructure, health and sanitation, and education. The book adops an entirely different framework by examing colonization from the perspective of cross-cultural relations. It espouse an interdisciplanary approach and uses indigenous social science concepts as integrating mechanism. The author uses the concepts of indegenous concepts of loob and kapwa and Scott's dominant -subordinate relationship as operation paradigms to analyze colonial relationships in a historical study. The various forms of interaction between Americans and the Filipinos are examined from records of both public and private discourse of Americans and Filipinos.